Screenwriters are taught: “Do not write what you cannot see.”Īnd this is why, after a career of writing screenplays and directing films, I wrote a crime novel.Ī screenplay is a blue print, drawn with action and dialogue, something that exists in a slippery space, to inspire a director to film, to suggest actors fulfill characters, for a production designer to envision set dressings and costumes and hair designs that likely were not even on the page.
